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kind progress more or less successfully. The laws of 

 Nature remain as God created them unchangeable, 

 notwithstanding what may be our desires our wishes 

 to have rain when too dry, or dry when too wet .... 



Let me remember, if I have not omitted some details 

 in my narrative of our henceforth discovery of that in- 

 dividuality now belonging to the community as far as 

 the name is concerned, as to the possession, Nihil! 

 The thing discovered remains to the Finder ! 



O ! I remember now, the dread of that Mr. Louis 

 came from the folks who gave the " dearly paid for 

 hospitality " to Miss Jackson and her Albany friends. 

 It seems that after meals, and from taking sea baths, 

 the conversation ran on that demagogue ! I have never 

 been and never will, but even if I had been I deserved 

 some regards from those people who were continually 

 begging of me a loaf of bread, butter, etc. , when short, 

 and that was the rule, short of bread and butter, and 

 shorter of decency, and those loaves were never re- 

 turned. The head of that family was an ex of some 

 sort of French Nobility. He styled himself I forget 

 but his name was a sort of Latin " Servatius/' that 

 my employer, Mr. George Thorburn, called " Starva- 

 tion ! " a well applied name, for often he lived on 

 Lobsters he caught in the Hell Gate waters, and the 

 loaves of bread and oil and vinegar he extorted from my 



